| Description | The name comes from the shiny black fruit. Listed as a noxious weed shrub in many states. |
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| Pronunciation | (roe-doe-TIE-pos)(SKAN-denz) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | sun to shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | white, 1-2 inches, 4 petaled, 4-lobed calyx, f, flowers are a nice clean white but I have never observed them in any abundance |
| Fruit | black shiny drupe in small cluster of around four at tip of flower stem |
| Leaves | simple, shiny dark green, doubly serrated, ribbed, looks like large Raspberry leaves |
| Dimensions | 3-6 feet tall, 4-9 spread, larger in native sites, some what arching branches can look rather straggly |
| Native Site | Native to Central China, Korea and Japan. |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced into the United States in 1866. |
| Misc Facts | The genus "rhodotypos" refers to rose-type referring to the flowers |
| Author's Notes | I have observed this shrub for many years in two botanic gardens I frequent and it lacks a lot of solid ornamental qualities but is heralded for is toughness. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) |
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